Button-shank.



UNITED-STATES .PATENT carica.

FREDERICK J. TAI-IL, OF CHICAGO, LLINOIS.

BUTToiLsHANK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 18, 1913.

applicationl ined rebruar'y 23, 1912.. seriai No. 679,410.

To 'all fle/wm it," may concern Be it known that I, Fiumicino J. TAHL, a

I citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improve# nient in Button-Shanks, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descrip'- tion of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification. i,

My invention has for its object to produce i a simple and novel shank for buttons which will permit the-buttons to lieI ,close to the ,garment and which will permit cloth cover.- ings to be easily secured in placeby sewing them to the Shanks where. the shanks are ap- 'plied to button forms or molds. l A further object of my invention iste i produce a sunple and novel detachable button shank which may be applied to any blittou mold,

The various 'features of novelty whereby my inveutioii is characterized will hereiny after, be. pointed outl with 'particularity in fabric stem made'of a .suitable material toA permit itto be sewcd to a garment. and strong enough to.' resist the strains upon arbutton which may be carried thereby. )n

one end of the stem is securedia flanged head, represented in` th`e drawing as consistinga of a small sheetinetal sleeve '2 having' a `tiangc 3 on one end. The hea-d is secured in.` place by being slipped over the end of the stem a nd being compressed o r otherwise coritractml so as'to clamp the end ofthe stem firmly, ln the arrangement shown,

tion being that inwhich it is Inadeof y,a

short piece of cord doubled upon itself in the sleeve portion of the head is split so as to make the opening' therethrough large enough to receive the end of the stem freely. The sleeve isthenclosed and, if desired, indented at one or more-points as indicated at t to prevent relative movements between the head and the stem in the direction of the lengt-h of the stem. The stein itselfniay f be variously formed, the s implestconstru'cthe middle and having'its ends clamped within the head. This'arrangement'gives a neat nish to that portion of the shank projectingtr` from the head and also makes the shank strongl and durable.

In usingl the shank a central liolgglargev enough to receive the body of the shank, is formed through the center of a button mold 5 and the shank is inserted through this hole and pressed down until the flange rests upon the. upper surface ofthe mold and the fabric end projects beyond'theback ofthe 'i mold. The mold may,V then be covered in any suitable Way; if lthe covering be offabric it. can be stretched over the top ofthe mold' and across the back as indicated by .the dotted line 6, being secured at 'the back by sewing,T it to the fabric shank.v .The shank therefore affords a means for fasteniir the. covering` on' the back side of the mol andf also for liol'dingir the complete button'tothe garment. lt will. also be seen-that the fiexi#l ble shank is soft ai'id yieldable as compared withthe usual metal eyelet, permitting the button to lie close to the garment Without making a rigid'proj'ection whichI will press "aga-inst the body of the wearer.

While I 'have 1illustrated and described in detail only Aa lsingle preferred form of my invention I do not desireto be limited tothe,

particular structural details thusillustrated 'and described, but intend to cover allforms.v and' arrangements- Whic'h vfall Wit-hin the terms employed-in the definitions'of my; in vention constitutingv theappended claims` I claim: i 1. As' an article of manufacture, a button' `shankv comprising a fabric' stemand a-tl'iiri: sheet metal sleeve clamped about oneend thereoffnd having a-narrow fange at its In testimony whereof, I sign this spa-ifioutr lend. cation in the presence of two witnesses. 2; As'` an a'1t c1e of manufacttn'e, u button o shank comprislng a stem conslsting of a FREDERICK J. TAHL.

-5 -p'ice of cord doubled upon itself, a sleeve 1 ofsheet metal clamped about the ends of Witnesses:

the cord, and a narrow ange about'the VM. F.1t`REU1mNmcro1r, out-er end of the sleeve. RUBY V. BRYDGES. 

